The director of the new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd." takes the final line from Billy Wilder's noir classic - "I'm ready for my close-up!" - and repeats it ad nauseam. The line is spoken only once on stage,

It’s the pictures that got small.” Perhaps the pictures have always been too small, if they have no place for a woman like Nicole Scherzinger’s radiant Norma Desmond. In the Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard,

Nicole Scherzinger is ready for her close-up. In the early aughts, the pop chanteuse scored global fame (and seven Top 20 hits) as the de facto leader of the Pussycat Dolls, which she then tried to springboard into a solo career.